Betaine HCL Testimony

Even though I prefer religious testimonies to testimonies about non-religious experiences, I think my particular experience here is worth mentioning - particularly to anyone struggling with chronic severe indigestion.  

I had testicular cancer way back in 2007 and radiation was part of the recommended preventative treatment so it wouldn't spread to other organs.  That radiation was no joke and I had to take STRONG anti-nausea medication in order to function during that time.

Many years later, in 2019, I began to have major digestive issues.  Constant, constant belching and bloating.  Massive indigestion.  Significant weight loss as well.  An endoscopy revealed no definite cause.  Slight gastritis, but nothing else.  At least it seemed to rule out anything big and noticeable like cancer again.  Whether what I was having was caused by or related to the radiation treatment many years before, I have no idea.

Eventually through strong persuasion by good friends that left me no excuses, I tried an unconventional approach with a chiropractor who had a simple test to measure stomach acid.  This was in 2024.  He determined that my stomach acid was very low and prescribed Betaine HCL pills.  These were supplements that provided additional stomach acid when the stomach acid I made naturally fell short.  

I started out taking as few of these pills as possible because I was scared to death of them.  I thought they'd eventually eat a hole through my stomach and kill me.  I suppose that's still a possibility, but now I usually take 15 of them a day (5 per meal), which is the maximum amount the chiropractor recommended, and think nothing of it.  And they certainly make me feel a lot better.  I still bloat up here and there when I eat a little too much, but it's not CONSTANT like it was before I took the medicine.  

So even though we see a seemingly endless amount of antacid commercials for heartburn on TV, I guess some people have the opposite problem and need MORE stomach acid.  I must be one of the few that fall into that category.